In the news - 2016-08-15

Backdooring an AWS account
An illuminating read on what you'd want to do after compromising an AWS account. Inversely, what you'd want to prevent / monitor when you have an AWS account. It focuses on making sure you can keep your access to the account, even after discovery.

AWS acquires collaborative coding company Cloud9 IDE
I've first tried Cloud9 over four years ago. That fact that they're still around is impressive. The fact that they're acquired by AWS is pointing in the direction of AWS becoming a one-stop platform for all steps of a backend / web development workflow.

Microsoft REST API Guidelines
A gigantic page of rules and practices open-sourced by Microsoft. I don't know how strictly they follow it (and for what APIs), but it looks like a solid starting point, or just an idea of repositories, for designing your own guidelines.

"My Philosophy on Alerting" - Rob Ewaschuk
Clear, short formulation of monitoring and alerting best practices collected and refined over the past 5-10 years. Perfectly aligned with practices shared at Monitorama (THE monitoring conference).

Nut
The development environment, containerized. Haven't tried it out yet, but I like the promise.